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[REGNUM] As for the presentation of the award to the film "Navalny", the presenters did not particularly develop the topic of "bloody repressions". Zelensky, like last year, wanted to speak via video link, but, like last year, he was not allowed to speak. But at this ceremony there were a lot of ... blue pins and other items of blue clothing. And what did all those blue ribbon pins on the Oscars mean?
If you read the usually sparse, as a rule, responses in the Russian media to the 95th award ceremony of the American (and therefore stingy) Academy Film Academy with its Oscars, then an inexperienced reader may get the impression that one of the main events was the awarding of the main prize to the documentary film "Navalny," as well as the failed video speech by Zelensky.
However, it is not. "Unfriendly" America and its creative elite live their own deep inner life. Somewhere on a distant planet "Avatar."
The main prize was given to the comedy "Everything Everywhere and At Once", which was awarded prizes in other categories as well. If you ask what this film is about, the answer will be canonical - “yes, in general, about nothing.” A set of computer tricks, some kind of burlesque and flickering without a single captured soap (if there is, then it is definitely not deep).
But this is an "Asian film", and it was noted, apparently, guided by the very political correctness and desire for diversity. Like, if official Washington is now in conflict with China, then we, liberal Hollywood, will note precisely the senseless comedy about the adventures of a Chinese family in America, and even recognize the Chinese woman as the “best leading lady”.
The film was shot by two directors Daniel Scheinert and Dan Kwan , who have not done anything but clips in their lives so far. And now they gave money - you can combine the videos a la Tik-Tok into a full-length movie, especially since official Washington poisons Tik-Tok and prohibits it.
The legendary Steven Spielberg received a secondary prize for his autobiographical film The Fabelmans.
Lately, Hollywood has been generally nostalgic about its beloved and about America 50-100 years ago, when the trees were big, the grass was greener, the coke was cleaner, and the feelings were sincere (in the sense that directors were not jailed for harassment, but how many actresses got out into the people through the same case). And there was no need to be equal to any “political correctness”.
In this sense, another nominee is similar to Fabelmans - Damien Chazelle 's Babylon , but they decided not to give him anything. And that will be too much beauty. Nothing went to the deep philosophical film "Banshee Inisherin" by Martin McDonagh . In my aesthetic opinion, very vain.
But today one does not want the Academy of depth and philosophy, one wants lightness.
If it were my will, I would generally give all the Oscars this year to the film adaptation of Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" directed by Edward Berger , recognized as the best foreign film . Don't ask why, just think. For the American film academy, there was, in fact, no choice: how not to celebrate the “war in Europe” this year. Besides, the film is really talented. Very.
But we will not list all the nominees and laureates, whoever needs it will find it and download it, since they don’t want to show these films to us legally.
As for the awarding of the award to the film "Navalny", their wife Yulia was invited to the ceremony, she said a few words appropriate to her and the ceremony, but the presenters did not particularly develop the topic of "bloody repressions", confining themselves to phrases like "it was an emotional year." Marked, they say, and okay.
Zelensky, like last year, wanted to speak via video link, but, like last year, they didn’t let him: they say, this is not the place for us to talk about modern war, we didn’t gather for this.
About 10,000 people voted for the Oscars this year. They had to watch all the films. Then decide which films they like the most.
The vote was not completely secret, as many "voters" managed to trumpet the media about their choice. Even then, it became clear that "Chinese-American burlesque" would win. Massively and cash (100 million has long been collected).
Voters were also asked to rank all 10 nominated films in order of preference. And although he did not win in any of the published ballots as a result, Ruben Östlund's "Triangle of Sorrow" was the second or third choice for a very large number of "voters", despite the fact that the film is also completely empty and meaningless, but there is perhaps no diversity and Chinese .
And also at this ceremony there were a lot of ... blue pins and other elements of blue clothing. And what did all those blue ribbon pins on the Oscars mean?
And the fact that badges and other accessories with a blue ribbon were shown as part of the #WithRefugees initiative, coined by the UN Refugee Agency - "as a sign of solidarity and support for refugees and displaced people around the world" . Organizers said "Wearing the #WithRefugees blue ribbon on the red carpet sends a powerful visual message that everyone has the right to seek safety, whoever, wherever and whenever they are."
God, how exquisite and high society touching. And at the same time, it's completely unobtrusive. Moreover, during the rest of the ceremony, the organizers did their best to avoid any surprises, scandalous antics, sharp and ambiguous statements, especially political demarches. In this regard, everything was successful.
[YouTube] A Russian Su-27 collided with a MQ-9 Reaper over the Black Sea, forcing it to land in international waters. The Su-27 likely flew from Belbek Air Base, home of the 38th Fighter Aviation Regiment. The video that follows in the queue is CNN’s report of the incident. They claim the Russians acted deliberately.
A Russian Su-27 fighter plane collided with a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday, a U.S. defense official told Fox News.
The jet in question was one of two Su-27's flying in tandem when the collision occurred in international airspace over international waters. The drone's propeller was damaged, forcing the unmanned aerial vehicle to ditch in the Black Sea, west of Crimea, the U.S. defense official told Fox News.
The Su-27 was headed toward Crimea and landed there after this incident, the official added. It is unknown if there was any damage to the Su-27.
U.S. European Command and U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) issued a statement on the incident in which they reported the events leading up to the collision and admonished the Russian military for "a pattern of dangerous actions" in international airspace.
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My understanding was the Russians did a fuel dump (JP4 or 5 - I don’t know what they use) on the drone before deliberately ramming it several times. Meticulous escalation - this way they can say they didn’t shoot it down per se. Anticipate playing bumper cars with a Global Hawk will be the next step up.
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Speculation re fuel dump. The fuel dump entering the drones air intake would cause over speed of the turboprop engine causing the propeller to disintegrate due to excessive centrifugal force
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Speculation re fuel dump. The fuel dump entering the drones air intake would cause over speed of the turboprop engine causing the propeller to disintegrate due to excessive centrifugal force
Russian socialist media says the pilot just wanted to "piss" on the aircraft.
[Censor UA] The traitor Oleg Tsarev suddenly made quite a sensational confession. He said that Yanukovych and the Party of Regions, when they were still in power, had a plan to collapse Ukraine. Yanukovych was going to rewrite the constitution in order to remain the president of Ukraine forever, and thus provoke the western regions of Ukraine to separatism. It was planned that they would revolt after such usurpation of power, and Yanukovych would not prevent their separation.
"I will tell you something that I have not told anyone before. I was holding in my hands a document developed by analysts of the Party of Regions, which considered the scenario of Yanukovych's lifetime presidency. Two presidential terms, an amendment to the Constitution, two more terms... And the only threat to the implementation of these plans was seen one: Western Ukraine will always destabilize the situation on the territory of the entire country and will do everything to prevent such a scenario from being implemented. the separation of a number of western regions into an autonomous formation that does not support the central government. Well, the central government would have to agree "with all its heart". So the events could have developed that way."
In fact, this is an admission that Yanukovych and his team were indeed Russian agents and had a clear plan to destroy their own country. With one of his confessions, Tsarev fully justified the need for the Maidan and confirmed that Ukrainians had no other option but to go to the Maidan and defend their country from criminals who intended to destroy it.
For almost 10 years, Russian propaganda proved that the Maidan was a coup d'état, that the Maidan allegedly provoked the war, and if the Maidan had not existed, then Yanukovych would have left with time, and everything would have been peaceful and good. And here Tsarev destroyed this lie with a few phrases. Because it follows from his words that it was Yanukovych who planned a coup d'état and the destruction of Ukraine, and Maidan prevented this coup.
I have been saying for a long time that we should thank fate for the stupidity of our enemies. If Tsarev had been smarter, he would certainly have kept silent about this plan. But since Tsarev has the intellect of a pithecanthropus, he blurted out everything and thereby fully justified the Revolution of Dignity. If anyone has ever doubted the necessity of the Maidan - after such a frank Tsareva, all doubts will disappear.
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If those people hate each other so badly, why are we trying so hard to force them to live together?
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So bad as Zelinsky (sp) is, he is the lesser evil?
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[Vesti] March 13 is the 383rd day of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Briefly about the main thing that is happening in the country on this day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, losses, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
07:00 . At the front, the RF Armed Forces are advancing in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Miners directions. The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled 102 attacks in these areas, the General Staff said.
08:00 . Nikolaevkskaya area. The Russians fired at the settlement of the Kutsurub community in the Nikolaev region - two people were killed , a seven-year-old child was taken by an ambulance, and two more people were injured. There may still be people under the rubble. There is destruction of houses.
Kherson region. In Kherson, they decided to lift the ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages for a month from March 15 in order to "help restore the region's economy," the OVA reported.
Donetsk region. The Russians are transporting prisoners to the Donetsk region - against the backdrop of large losses of personnel in the war, the enemy is using alternative sources of replenishment of manpower, the General Staff reported. One of the wagons was carrying convicted women.
Timeline of the war in Ukraine: Monday, March 13 (updated) - photo 1
Kharkov region. During the day, Russia shelled the border settlements of Kupyansky, Chuguevsky and Kharkov regions of the region. There were no casualties among the civilian population.
10:00 am . Kyiv. Stabilization shutdowns have been applied in some districts of the capital, DTEK reported. In part of Goloseevsky, Svyatoshinsky, Shevchenkovsky and Solomensky districts, blackouts are taking place according to stabilization schedules. Due to damage to equipment, power facilities cannot transmit energy to all residents.
11:00 am . Donetsk region. As a result of the shelling of the 58th school in the Kievsky district of Donetsk, a teacher of elementary grades and a laboratory assistant were wounded.
Kherson region. The Russians attacked the region 56 times - more than 330 shells from mortars, MLRS, artillery, tanks and UAVs. Residential areas of Kherson were fired twice. Shells hit private and apartment buildings. 1 person injured.
12:00 . Two surface launch vehicles of the Russian Federation with a total salvo of 16 Caliber missiles have been launched into the Black Sea. There is a threat of a missile attack.
13:00 . Sumy region. The Russians launcheda missile attack on the village of Znob-Novgorodskoyein the area of the local agricultural lyceum - one civilian was killed, four people were injured.
13:40 . Explosions are reported in the Sumy region and Konstantinovka, Donetsk region.
14:00 . Kherson region. In one of the settlements of the Daryevskaya community, Russian troopsfired on a brigade of power engineerswho were performing emergency and restoration work. One electrician was injured. A new curfew is being introduced in the Kherson region. Until March 17 inclusive, it will last from 17:00 to 06:30
15:00 . Donetsk region. The Russiansfired two missile attacks at a school in Avdievka - a local resident was killed.
17:30 . The Russian Federation launched a new fake about Ukraine. Allegedly, Kyiv refused to create a protective zone around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
18:00 . During the day, Russian troops launched 29 air and six missile strikes. We made more than 10 attacks from the MLRS. Operational summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the evening of March 13.
18:18 . One person died, at least two were injured as a result of today's rocket attack on Avdiivka - the head of the Donetsk Regional Military District Kirilenko. According to him, one of the missiles hit a humanitarian center.
18:45 . Ukraine's budget expenditures may increase by UAH 537 billion in the near future. The corresponding bill was supported by the Cabinet of Ministers, Prime Minister Shmyhal said.
19:19 . Switzerland disposes of anti-aircraft missiles that Ukraine could need. This is reported by NZZ.
"It is planned that all systems will be dismantled and disposed of under these and other trenches," Kai-Gunnar Sievert, a spokesman for the Armasuisse federal defense procurement office, said.
19:51 . The Russian Federation does not object to another extension of the "grain deal" after March 18, Deputy Foreign Minister Vershinin said following negotiations with the UN in Geneva on this issue. True, with one condition - so far for 60 days.
20:15 . SBU counterintelligence officers detained an enemy informant while trying to transfer classified information to the Russians. This was reported on March 13 by the press service of the department.
20:45 . The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks in the areas of 15 settlements in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Shakhtyorsky directions. Operational summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the evening of March 13.
21:09 . The inhabitant of the Nikolaev area on own car ran over an anti-tank mine. From a mine-explosive injury and multiple leg wounds, he died on the spot.
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[Korrespondent] 22:50 Lukashenka visited Iran in the interests of Moscow, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said. According to him, this visit is "in a sense, a continuation of the deepening of relations between Iran and Russia." Read more about the visit of the Belarusian dictator to Iran in the material Golden Parachute .
22:47 Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Kubrakov said that the grain deal cannot be extended for only 60 days, as Russia wants: "The agreement on the Black Sea Grain Initiative provides for an extension of at least 120 days, so Russia's position on extending the agreement for only 60 days days contradicts the document signed by Turkey and the UN. We are waiting for the official position of the UN and Turkey as guarantors of the initiative."
21:54 Zelensky said in an evening video message that it is “very tough and very painful” in the east of the country: “It is necessary to destroy the military power of the enemy - and we will destroy it. We are now deciding what our future will be."
21:32 Washington welcomes a possible conversation between Xi Jinping and Zelensky, Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said: "This will be a good thing, because it will potentially bring more balance and opinions to the PRC's approach to the war in Ukraine. And we hope that further We will dissuade them from providing lethal assistance to Russia."
20:24 Russian conscripts or their wives and mothers are turning to Putin with a request to take the military from the front. At the same time, as a rule, the mobilized and their relatives do not oppose the war as such, but only complain about poor uniforms, weapons, and command mistakes. In recent years, such requests have increased exponentially. More details - in the material Revolt of the mobilized .
20:07 EU countries next week will sign a joint plan for the purchase of ammunition for Ukraine, writes Bloomberg.
19:55 In the Kherson region, four pyrotechnicians of the State Emergency Service were blown up by Russian explosives in the village of Posad-Pokrovskoye, the OVA reported. Explosives specialists arrived from Nikolaev to help colleagues. During demining work, an ammunition exploded. All victims are in a state of moderate severity.
19:21 The first ten Ukrainian military crews have completed a four-week training on Leopard 2 tanks in Spain, the country's Ministry of Defense reported. A total of 55 Ukrainian soldiers, both professional soldiers and reservists, aged 21 to 60, have been trained.
19:00 In the Kharkiv region, there are three gray zones where active hostilities are taking place, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. He added that 29 settlements of the region are under temporary occupation. "There are three settlements that we consider to be a gray zone, on the territory of which active hostilities are being conducted. In particular, this is the settlement of Gryanikovka. However, our soldiers stand on their positions and do not yield," Sinegubov stressed.
He noted that the Russians are trying to identify weak positions in the defense of the Ukrainian military, probably preparing a more serious offensive in these areas. But now the Russian troops are suffering losses and are retreating to previously occupied positions.
18:28 The Cabinet of Ministers supported a bill to increase state budget spending by 537 billion hryvnias, of which more than 518 billion are proposed to be additionally allocated to the security and defense sector, Shmyhal said.
18:05 Russia does not object to the next extension of the grain deal after its expiration on March 18, but not for 120 days, as it was before, but for 60, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said following negotiations with the UN in Geneva. He added that the further position of the Russian Federation on the grain deal will be determined "depending on real progress in the normalization of Russia's agricultural exports."
17:31 In the Kharkiv region, in the village of Kupyansk-Uzlovoy, police detained a Russian from the 27th motorized rifle brigade, who had been hiding in abandoned buildings since at least September 2022, when the area was liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the regional police said.
17:23 The Russians fired from cannon artillery and multiple launch rocket systems Hurricane Avdeevka and Konstantinovka in Donetsk region: one person died in Avdiivka and five were injured in Konstantinovka, the regional prosecutor's office said.
16:58 In Moscow, forests are being cut down to accommodate air defense systems, writes The Insider. According to the publication, the sites began to be cleared for military needs at the end of 2022. S-400 air defense systems and radar systems are already in the fields of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, and about 100 hectares have been cut down on the territory of the protected zone of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve for air defense. Another site is being prepared in the park-reserve Losiny Ostrov.
The authorities do not pay attention to the protests of residents, as well as to the warnings of environmentalists and experts who talk about safety violations and possible uncontrolled launches. All these sites are located in close proximity to residential areas.
16:39 In the Kherson region, a resident of the Nikolaev region was killed, who, moving along the outskirts of the village of Posad-Pokrovskoye in his own car, ran into an anti-tank mine, the Office of the Prosecutor General reported.
16:07 The International Criminal Court intends to initiate a war crimes case against Russia, writes The New York Times, citing sources among current and former officials who are aware of the preparation of the decision. According to the newspaper, the Russian Federation will be accused of kidnapping Ukrainian children and deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure. The court is expected to ask for arrest warrants for several people.
15:56 In Geneva, negotiations began between the Russian Federation and the UN to extend the grain agreement, which expires on March 18, Reuters reports.
15:17 In the Sumy region, the number of people injured as a result of a missile attack on the building of a professional agricultural lyceum in Znob-Novgorodsky has grown to five, one person died, OK Pivnich reported.
14:51 Russian saboteurs have probably entered the territory of the Kherson region. Currently, they are being searched for, so in the region from March 13 to 17, a curfew will be temporarily in effect from 17:00 to 6:30, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
14:33 The Russians fired two missile attacks at a school in Avdiivka, killing one person, the President's Office reported.
14:31 In the Kherson region, the Russians fired at a brigade of power engineers who were going to repair work in one of the villages of the Daryev community - one of them was wounded, the OVA reported.
14:12 The "authorities" of the occupied Zaporizhia region announced that from September 1, the compulsory study of the Ukrainian language will be canceled in schools. Parents are promised to be given the opportunity to choose which language their children will learn as their native language - Russian or Ukrainian.
13:38 The European Union has extended for another six months without changes the sanctions against 1,473 individuals and 205 legal entities from the Russian Federation, imposed in connection with the aggressive war against Ukraine, Radio Liberty correspondent Rikard Jozwiak said.
13:13 Xi Jinping plans to hold an online meeting with Zelensky for the first time since a full-scale war, writes The Wall Street Journal.
12:59 Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili criticized Zelensky for supporting mass protests in Tbilisi against the law on "foreign agents", accusing Kiev of interfering in the country's internal affairs and trying to drag it into the war. In turn, the speaker of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Oleg Nikolenko, called these statements unfriendly and "almost word for word repeating the theses of Russian propaganda."
"We categorically reject such insinuations, which have nothing to do with reality. The Georgian authorities are looking for an enemy in the wrong place. We are convinced that the statements of Georgian politicians will not be able to shake the strong friendship between the Ukrainian and Georgian peoples. We highly appreciate the support of Georgians at a time when Ukrainians fighting for their independence. For its part, Ukraine has been and will remain a friend of the Georgian people, whom we wish not to stop in the development of the European future," Nikolenko said.
12:36 In the village of Znob-Novgorodskoye, Sumy region, the Russians launched a missile strike in the area of the local professional agricultural lyceum: one person was killed, four were injured, the President's Office reported.
12:17 Putin on March 16, for the first time since the start of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, will hold a meeting with the oligarchs - the leading members of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, writes Bloomberg. The publication notes that if last year many tycoons were concerned that a public appearance with Putin could make them targets for sanctions, now most of the main members of the board of the RSPP are subject to restrictions.
12:11 Peskov said that there are no prerequisites for the transition of the situation in Ukraine to a peaceful course, "at the moment, achieving the goals of the special operation is possible only by military means." He also called "an absurd curiosity" the proposal to rename Russia to Muscovy: "Russia is a great power and will remain Russia."
12:08 Major General Viktor Nikolyuk has been appointed commander of the training of the Command of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and Brigadier General Dmitry Krasilnikov has become commander of OK Pivnich, the Ministry of Defense reported.
11:57 Serviceman Alexander Matsievsky, whom the Russians shot for the words "Glory to Ukraine" and to whom Zelensky awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine, was a citizen of Moldova, the country's Foreign Ministry said. Official Chisinau condemned the murder and stated that it could be qualified as a war crime.
11:49 An urgent debate will be held at the spring session of PACE on the forced deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia, said Maria Mezentseva, head of the permanent delegation of the Verkhovna Rada to PACE. At the end of the debate, a resolution should be adopted. In addition, according to Mezentseva, the issue of deportation of Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation will be discussed at the summit of the leaders of the member countries of the Council of Europe at the end of May in Iceland.
The deputy stressed that Russia does not give access to either the UN structures or the International Committee of the Red Cross in the so-called "summer camps" where Ukrainian children are kept. According to the UK, there may be approximately 43 such camps on the territory of the Russian Federation. Mezentseva recalled that more than 16,000 complaints about Ukrainian children illegally taken to Russia have been officially registered, of which 307 children have already been returned home.
11:24 OK Pivden warned of an extremely high threat of a missile attack: there is an increased activity of tactical aviation of the Russian Federation in the eastern direction and over the Sea of Azov. The activity of enemy reconnaissance UAVs is not ruled out. Two surface launchers launched into the Black Sea in a salvo of up to 16 Caliber missiles.
11:15 Luxembourg sent Ukraine eight out of 14 armored ambulances manufactured by the British company Venari.
10:34 At the end of 2022, Ukraine became the third largest importer of major types of weapons (after Qatar and India) and the 14th largest importer in 2018-2022, according to a report by the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). In total, over a five-year period, Ukraine accounted for 2% of world arms imports.
10:16 The blowing up of a section of the railway track by partisans in the Kherson region is a "rehearsal" before a large-scale action, said the speaker of OK Pivden Natalya Gumenyuk: "In order to carry out a large-scale action, you need to rehearse a little. certain directions in order to free others for their actions.
The day before, the ATESH partisan movement announced that its members blew up the railway between the settlements of Abrikosovka and Radensk in the Kherson region.
10:04 Xi Jinping plans to visit Moscow next week, Reuters reports, citing sources.
09:58 Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev said that Russia does not know for certain who is the author and perpetrator of the explosions on the Nord Streams, but Moscow does not believe in the Ukrainian trace. In particular, Patrushev questioned the existence of "Ukrainian terrorists capable of such an operation," while the United States and Britain "definitely have units that could arrange this sabotage." In addition, he noted that the explosions in the Nord Streams Ukraine were useless - "Kyiv has not lost or gained anything from these terrorist attacks."
09:42 British intelligence notes that in recent weeks, Prigozhin has lost access to recruitment in Russian prisons due to disputes with the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense and is now directing his efforts to recruit civilians. So, since the beginning of March, Wagner has created visiting groups in sports centers in at least 40 settlements throughout Russia. In recent days, masked Wagner recruiters have also held career talks at Moscow universities, handing out "young warrior questionnaires" to collect contact details of those interested.
According to analysts, about half of the prisoners sent by PMC Wagner to fight in Ukraine have most likely already died, and "new initiatives" are unlikely to compensate for the loss of the flow of prisoners. If the situation does not improve, then Prigozhin is likely to be forced to reduce the scale or intensity of Wagner PMC operations in Ukraine, intelligence adds.
09:15 The situation around Bakhmut remains difficult: the assault detachments of PMC Wagner are advancing from several directions, trying to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian troops and advance into the central regions of the city, said Alexander Syrsky, commander of the Ground Forces. He added that in the course of tough battles, the Defense Forces inflict significant losses on the enemy and repel all enemy attempts to capture the city.
08:48 As a result of morning attacks of the settlement of the Kutsurubsky community two people were lost, three more are wounded, among them the seven-year-old child, the head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaly Kim reported.
08:39 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, seven people were injured, in the Kherson region - one person, according to the OVA.
08:17 Russians fired at the settlement of the Kutsurubsky community of the Nikolaev area in the morning. According to preliminary information, one person died, there may be more people under the rubble of residential buildings, said the head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaly Kim.
08:12 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 13.
personnel - about 159,800 (+710) people liquidated,
tanks - 3474 (+8),
armored combat vehicles - 6774 (+5),
artillery systems - 2503 (+16),
MLRS - 493 (+0),
air defense systems - 259 (+0),
aircraft - 304 (+0),
helicopters - 289 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 2109 (+1),
cruise missiles - 907 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 5354 (+6),
special equipment - 251 (+9).
08:07 The Russian army continues offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Shakhtyorsky directions. Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repulsed 102 enemy attacks in the indicated directions, the General Staff said in the morning report .
Against the backdrop of heavy losses, the Russian Federation uses alternative sources of replenishment of manpower. Last week, movement was noted towards the Donetsk region of a train with reserved seats for the transport of prisoners. One of the carriages is with convicted women.
06:26 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Putin is looking for "scapegoats" on whom he can lay the blame for Russian failures in the war against Ukraine. Thus, the head of the Kremlin is using the Wagner PMC's heavy losses, reports of bad morale and war crimes to distract the population from similar or possibly worse problems in the Russian military.
At the same time, the RF Ministry of Defense remains in Putin's good graces, despite the crushing defeats near Ugledar in early February. Analysts say Prigozhin's troubles should encourage other Kremlin officials, such as Kadyrov, to lower their ambitions to avoid the fate of PMC founder Wagner.
05:55 The authorities of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation said that an air defense system worked over Belgorod and the Belgorod region, four missiles were allegedly shot down, one person was injured.
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[RIA Novosti] American politicians who advocate cutting military support for Kyiv are increasingly referring to Ukrainian corruption. And they call for a thorough audit of spending. Will this affect the supply of the Armed Forces - in the material RIA Novosti.
"I'M A SPY"
One of the latest evidence that Ukraine is selling American weapons is the statements of John McIntyre. He fought for almost a year in various units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and now he has gone over to the side of Russia.
McIntyre, he said, originally planned to collect data on Ukrainian war crimes and corruption in their ranks, and then transfer them to Moscow.
The American said that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine steals insurance payments - 90 percent of the families of dead foreigners will never see this money. More importantly, officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine sell many types of weapons: “A huge amount of Javelins , M4 rifles and M240 Bravo machine guns get on the black market,” he said in an interview with RT.
There are many shops with military equipment in Ukraine, John added. And he continued: “I remember once I looked and thought:“ Good helmets, just like American ones! ”And then it dawned on me that all these helmets, bulletproof vests, tiles were stolen and resold on the black market to these stores.”
"MCCARTHY WON'T COME TO YOU"
This is a very serious signal of corruption in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but in the United States the Republicans started talking about the problem even earlier. Before the congressional elections, the "elephants" promised to reduce the cost of Kyiv and conduct an audit.
They managed to win a majority in the House of Representatives, but the Senate remained under Democratic control. Because of this, difficulties arose with the appointment of the head of the House of Representatives - Kevin McCarthy was elected only on the 15th attempt. And he, it seems, undertook to fulfill the promises of the Republicans.
The past week was marked by an absentee skirmish between McCarthy and Vladimir Zelensky . The American even refused to visit Kyiv.
The American media wrote about attempts by Zelensky's office to contact McCarthy, but the conversation, apparently, did not take place. At least, this is evidenced by the appeal of the Ukrainian president to the congressman to visit Kyiv and personally make sure that all the money is spent properly.
“I don’t have to go to Ukraine to figure out where a blank check is and where it’s not,” McCarthy replied, referring to the unlimited US spending on Zelensky.
GROWING PUBLIC DEBT
The Republican points to the growing US national debt. A month ago, he said that the House of Representatives would not approve new loans if the White House did not cut spending. And without the permission of Congress, the Treasury has no right to raise the limit, so Washington risks facing the threat of default.
As a result, the government may take extraordinary measures - to suspend contributions to pension and social funds. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen estimates that this will last until mid-summer. If it is not possible to reach an agreement in the coming months, serious problems will arise.
Of course, this is unlikely. Still, no one wants a default in Washington.
AUDITORS ARE COMING.
Such scrupulousness is not McCarthy's whim. He expresses the opinion of a significant - especially in the conditions of a minimal majority in the House of Representatives - part of the Republicans. One of the most prominent supporters of cutting aid to Ukraine is Marjorie Taylor Green .
“There is no bipartisan support in the country for the war in Ukraine. This war does nothing for the Americans, other than making them pay for it,” she says. And he calls the Kiev regime one of the most corrupt in the world.
The congresswoman also plans to submit to parliament a law on the audit of funds allocated to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She tried to push this document through in the last convocation, but then the initiative was blocked.
The law will allow Congress to review this item of expenditure.
However, the Pentagon is already doing this - about 20 audits have been launched. And after a joint trip to Kiev at the end of January, the inspectors general of the military department, the State Department and the Agency for International Development reported that they insisted on sending auditors and investigators to Ukraine. Prior to that, they operated remotely.
However, Marjorie Taylor Green and some of her party colleagues believe that it is Congress that should check so that everyone can see the results of the audit.
NOT ONLY ON WEAPONS, BUT ALSO ON FOOD
And in Ukraine, corruption scandals follow one after another. At the end of January, it turned out that products for the Armed Forces of Ukraine are purchased at a price two to three times higher than even in retail stores in Kyiv.
They fired 11 high-ranking officials, including the heads of five regions and Deputy Defense Minister Vyacheslav Shapovalov. Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov himself almost lost his post as well.
In early February, the head of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada , David Arakhamia , announced that Reznikov would be appointed minister for strategic industries, and that he would be replaced by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defense Ministry, Kirill Budanov.
On the same day, Reznikov organized a press conference. He declared that only the president can remove him from his post. And he added that if Zelensky had offered him to head the Ministry of Strategic Industry, he would have refused. The next day, Arakhamia clarified: Reznikov is staying.
AMERICAN FATIGUE
Ukraine's lobbyists in Washington tried to use the scandal as an example of Zelensky's anti-corruption activism. “We have made it very clear that we need to see how they are fighting this fight, what steps they are taking against, including good corporate governance and legal action, how they are moving forward,” said Victoria Nuland.
However, the Americans, judging by the polls, are already tired of endless pandering to Kyiv. A January poll by CBS News and YouGov found that more than half of Republican supporters would like their congressional candidates to oppose support for Ukraine. This is twice as much as a year ago.
And if in May 2022 60% of respondents were in favor of all-round assistance to the Kyiv regime, now there are 48% of them. And those who believe that American aid is excessive a year ago was seven percent, now it is 26.
Both the mood of the population and the position of the most active Republican politicians complicate the life of the Biden administration.
However, even if Congress stops approving new spending on Ukraine, the supply of Kyiv will not stop. In any case, Biden will have the opportunity to send the Armed Forces of the American weapons available in warehouses within the framework of presidential powers.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 19:16 Another large cache with ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was discovered by police on the territory of the Zaporozhye region -video
The hiding place was set up by criminal investigation operatives together with private security and OMON fighters of the Russian Guard near the village of Zelyonaya Balka in an abandoned building - ironically, right next to the monument "To the Warriors Who Died During the Great Patriotic War."
They seized from the cache: an anti-tank hand grenade launcher, 4 shots for it, 15 different grenades and 19 fuses, three TNT blocks with a total weight of 1.2 kg and over 4,000 rounds of various calibers.
“Cherry on the cake”, of course, the list of confiscated items is completed by the form of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
All content is currently sent for research, on this fact the issue of initiating a criminal case is being decided.
19:15 Russian Guard special forces for the week delayed about 30 accomplices of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kherson and Zaporozhye regions
The detained spotters transmitted by means of communication information about the positions, composition and movements of our troops.
In addition to communication in chats of closed social networks, sources of radio emission were identified and hundreds of fragments of radiograms were intercepted.
In addition, the detainees seized: a tank machine gun, Igla MANPADS, grenade launchers, radio stations, more than 70 hunting rifles and 3,500 ammunition of various calibers.
19:03 Footage of objective monitoring of the destruction by the military of the Special Forces of the Southern Group of Forces of the transport of the evacuation of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Pervomayskoye DPR area -video
19:02 Look at what bulletproof vests the corrupt government supplies to the Independent, led by Zelensky, to the Armed Forces of Ukraine under the guise of humanitarian aid from Western masters -video
18:58 Russian special forces destroy the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Kremennaya-Svatovo -video
Sniper pairs of special forces units carry out a plan for the disposal of ukrofascists.
18:06 Aidar militants showed a "heroic" assault on an empty house -video
On all Ukrainian channels, footage of the “battle” is flying, Svidomites like it. The Nazis tried very hard, but it turned out unconvincingly.
17:11 The capture of our fighter and possible execution -video
The fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed footage of the attack on the positions of our fighters, at the end of the video our guy is lying on the ground, the Ukrainians are yelling at him and demanding to get up, after which shooting starts off-screen.
This video can be seen by the fighter’s relatives, so we write what we see: it’s not clear on the footage whether they are shooting at our fighter or just overhead/into the ground for warning. There are no hits on the camera, so we hope that our soldier is alive. The enemy side calls the video - "taking prisoner."
16:35 Ukrainian occupational The authorities in the part of the Kherson region they control today have introduced a new curfew regime - from 17:00 to 06:30.
“To everyone who needs to travel outside the region today, I ask you to do this immediately, and in the future, plan your time in the city and region,” said local Gauleiter Prokudin.
16:10 How the ambulance works in Lviv —video
15:39 The most active hostilities over the past day were conducted in the Krasno-Limansky and Donetsk directions. In total, about 300 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed here, as well as the 122mm Gvozdika artillery mount, three tanks, the 152mm MSTA-B howitzer and about 20 units of other military equipment -video
Three enemy heavy weapons were also hit in the Kherson direction: two 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled howitzers and another 152mm MSTA-B howitzer. In addition, the Ukrainian OSA-AKM anti-aircraft missile system was hit in the Pervomaisky area.
During this period, Russian air defense systems destroyed 16 enemy UAVs, intercepted 12 HIMARS MLRS shells and the HARM anti-radar missile.
15:17 Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation is hitting the neo-Nazis' supporters over Kremennaya -video
Air support cannot be overestimated.
Lying in a deep hole, after another dash to the accompaniment of enemy machine guns, there is nothing better than hearing the rumble of allied aircraft overhead. The feeling is indescribable, joyful and intoxicating. Almost like love.
Even better, when aviation reciprocates and after the roar of jet engines you hear powerful explosions in the direction where until recently there was an enemy opornik. It is also almost like love, but mutual.
14:43 Operators of the UAV OBTF DPR "Kaskad" day and night control the movement of the enemy from the air and, in case of detection of armored vehicles or neo-Nazi personnel, carry out fire damage using strike drones -video
14:40 In Ukraine announced massive air raid.
“There is information about the launch of cruise missiles,” said Venislavsky, a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security.
14:39 The main thing from the briefing of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
Russian troops destroyed more than 60 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kupyansk direction during the day;
The RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 60 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as 152mm D-20 and 122mm D-30 howitzers in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed up to 190 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction in a day;
During the day, Russian air defense systems shot down 12 HIMARS MLRS shells, a HARM missile, and destroyed 16 drones;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 110 soldiers and the 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled gun in the Krasnoliman direction.
13:59 The work of the Russian sniper on the Ukrainian Nazi, who inadvertently leaned out of the trench -video
Very symbolic, in fact. Russia's actions against Nazism, which raised its head, in miniature.
13:19 Ukrainian Nazi comedian flew joking with Bandera: a member of the "League of Laughter" was destroyed in the battles near Ugledar
On February 24, a cheerful militant from the 72nd Mechanized Brigade named after Cherny Zaporozhets was surrounded, seriously wounded and captured, where he could not be pumped out.
It is known that a member of the Our Format team was in Germany at the beginning of the conflict, but after a while he arrived in Ukraine and ended up at the front.
13:15 Police officers in Novotroitsk discovered APU uniform and weapons in an abandoned house
Police officers received operational information that an abandoned house in the village. Yasnaya Polyana, Novotroitsk Ministry of Defense, Kherson region, weapons are stored.
When leaving for the scene, investigators found five grenades with fuses, a Makarov pistol and 34 rounds of 9mm caliber for it, 204 rounds of 5.45mm caliber, a hunting rifle, and 11 rounds of 12 gage caliber. Also at the scene was a military uniform of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a military ID. It was established that, according to available information, its owner left for Germany.
Further investigation is underway.
Systematic work to detect and suppress illicit trafficking in weapons and ammunition continues
12:44 Destruction of the communication relay equipment of the Ukrainians in the village of Novoberislav, Berislav district, Kherson region —video
Jewelery hit on the top of the communications tower where the equipment was installed. At the same time, they knocked down a two-color rag. Video control and guidance from a drone.
Now there will be less Khokhlyatskaya television and radio propaganda.
12:35 Police officers of the Kherson region neutralized the warhead of a VFU anti-aircraft missile found in a sowing field -video
In the village of Trudovoe, on a field with sunflowers, investigators found fragments of a shell that was fired from the territory controlled by Ukraine.
Explosives experts found that what was found is parts of the S-300 missile complex, and poses a threat to local residents, since the warhead contains explosives and submunitions.
11:56 Air raid alert announced in Kyiv, Kyiv region, Chernihiv and Poltava regions
11:08 Destroyed tank T-64BV of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut.
10:58 Kyiv's provocations are becoming more and more cruel - in Kherson, as a result of shelling by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, people died near the ATB store -video
The Kiev regime continues to kill civilians in Kherson for the sake of provocation and accusation of the RF Armed Forces. Another blow was dealt to the ATB store, where at the time of arrival there was a crowd of people. The scheme for Kyiv is quite typical: instead of humanitarian aid, people were given certificates to buy food at the ATB, and when people gathered in the store, Ukrainian mortars were used.
The fact that this arrival is a pure provocation is at least evidenced by the fact that photographs from the place almost simultaneously appeared in the Ukrainian media. This is already the result of the work of the CIPSO.
By the nature of the damage, it is clear that the shelling was carried out from the side of Chernobaevka. By the way, it was there that at the time of the shelling, the work of large-caliber 120mm mortars of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was noticed. This type of armament is indicated both by the size of the crater from the fallen mine and the spread of fragments.
10:55 Punishers kill in the back the Ukrainian military who do not want to die for the Kiev regime -video
Donbass. The mobilized soldiers decided to stop participating in the senseless massacre.
The Nazis shoot them in the back and film what is happening on camera to intimidate other UAF members.
10:14 Air Raid announced in Poltava, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk and Sumy regions of Ukraine
09:48 Another destroyed BMP of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the NVO zone -video
09:42 The disorientation of the APU militants on the ground makes it possible for Russian artillery to strike at the accumulation of enemy equipment -video
08:38 Bandera arrested in Ochakiv, Eduard Shevchenko, the "People's Hero of Ukraine", an elite naval special forces operative, former commander of the 73rd Special Operations Forces Center of Ukraine. Shevchenko is a knight of the orders of Bogdan Khmelnitsky II and III degrees, a full cavalier of the Order "For Courage". He went through the main battles in the Donbass as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. An interesting fact is that Eduard Shevchenko is a Muslim.
Now the separatists are accusing Shevchenko of working for Russia, according to the SBU, he tried to persuade the leadership of Ochakov to surrender the city to Russian troops.
08:29 Cossack armored vehicles burned by the Russian army at the front -video
The first armored vehicle was destroyed near Belogorovka in the LPR, and the second - in the Kherson region, everything is already green there.
Ours continue to massively destroy enemy equipment with accurate fire.
08:28 A damaged armored personnel carrier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is trying to pass through the crossing with the risk of falling off -video
The enemy continues to show how he is forcing rivers at the front.
08:13 Confirmed losses of militants of the "Right Sector" (67 Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine), liquidated near Bakhmut this week.
08:12 Destroyed American armored car International MaxxPro, delivered to the nationalists of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
08:10 All targets destroyed: naval infantry of the Black Sea Fleet smash the enemy in the zone of the special operation -video
In the course of combat work, units of the Marine Corps of the Black Sea Fleet in one of the areas of a special military operation repelled an attack by a sabotage and reconnaissance group of Ukrainian militants.
According to intelligence, the location of the enemy was determined and fire from an anti-tank missile system, artillery and T-90M "Proryv" tanks, the attack of Ukrainian nationalists was thwarted in a matter of minutes.
Adjustment of the fire was carried out by calculations of unmanned aerial vehicles. All targets were destroyed during the battle.
08:06 Right Sector Unit called The “Ukrainian Volunteer Corps” went through a process of “de-Sovietization”, removing Kalashnikov assault rifles from their chevrons and replacing them with something resembling American M4 automatic carbines, and instead of a sword, an American M9 army knife. But it is not exactly.
It should be noted that the “Right Sector,” the DUK and other “crooks” of the extinguished Nazi thought, in recent years have rapidly degraded from the combat detachment of Bandera terror into a shobla of disorganized scumbags, somehow spudded by rare leaders, like the recently closed Kotsyubaylo.
Actually, over the past year, the number of Nazis who are able to somehow organize the tattooed cattle has sharply decreased. “There are few real violent ones, so there are no leaders ...”
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 03/13/2023 to 00:00 03/14/2023
Over the past day Representation reported about 27 facts of firing by the VFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 17 attacks from 155mm artillery, a strike UAV.
On Gorlovsky five artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky three artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
On Volnovakhskoe two artillery attack from MLRS, artillery 155mm. By releasing 125 units of various ammunition.
The region of eight settlements of the Republic came under enemy fire: Shirokaya Balka, Yasinovatsky district, Yasinovataya, capital city. Donetsk (Kyiv, Kuibyshev, Kirovsky districts), Makeivka (Chervonogvardei district), Aleksandrovka, Volnovakha, Olhinka.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of two civilians in the previously liberated Volnovakha. Wounds of varying severity were received by 13 civilians in the Kievsky, Kirovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Oleksandrivka, as well as previously liberated Volnovakha and Olginka.
A total of 11 housing constructions were damaged in the Kievsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Oleksandrivka, as well as three civil infrastructure facilities.
Previously 15 artillery attacks were recorded from the VFU side in 24 hours.
21:55 Mobilized are trained in tactical medicine -video.
21:54 Russian aviation is working in the Ugledar direction -video.
21:49 Ka-52 destroys Ukrainian equipment -video.
21:07 Wagner was told about the last assault on Berkhovka and about the situation in the area of the Chasov Yar-Bakhmut route -video.
20:10 APU fired at Volnovakha from HIMARS. Two women were killed and a 14-year-old girl was injured -video.
19:30 Flaming Bakhmut through the eyes of the enemy: our troops bombard the enemy with rounds -video.
19:25 Starobilsk direction settingas of 19.00 March 13, 2023
- In the Kupyansky sector, the parties are fighting in the area of the village of Yagodnoye. Fire support for Russian troops is provided by Su-25 tactical aircraft, as well as four Mi-8 helicopters.
- Mortar crews of the 40th Specialized Security Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine conduct regular artillery attack of Russian positions in Gryanikovka. Target designation to the enemy is provided by drones.
In Kislovka, UAV crews use Mavik-3 copters to track the activities of Russian troops, and sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operate at the Kislovka-Krakhmalnoye line.
- The enemy is equipping the advanced positions of 28th Separate Rifle Brigade at the turn of Krasnoe First - Dvurechnaya and 109th Artillery Regiment in the Sinkovka area. To maintain combat readiness, ammunition was transported to the strongholds of 36th Rifle Brigade in Kamenka.
In the Limansky sector, six assault groups of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Airborne Troops of Ukraine, with the support of several armored vehicles, tried to counterattack the positions of the 144th Motorized Rifle Division of the RF Armed Forces in order to return the previously lost strongholds in the Zhuravka Balka area. Russian troops repulsed the attack, the enemy retreated with losses.
- To slow down the advance of the RF Armed Forces, the Ukrainian command transferred operational reserve units to the front line, which made another unsuccessful attempt at a counterattack.
Over the past two days, the paratroopers of the 25th Brigade lost 20 people killed and 32 wounded. The enemy is carrying out a planned rotation of the personnel of 13th Airmobile Brigade 95th Airmobile Brigade in the vicinity of Torsky, and is also transferring reserves to reinforce forward positions west of the village of Dibrova.
19:20 Artillery of the NM LPR is working in the Belogorovka area in the Seversky direction -video.
18:48 Two M113s destroyed near Kurdyumovka. Archival footage -video.
18:30 Consequences of artillery attacks of Volnovakha by Ukrainian militants.
18:22 Another destroyed BMP of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the NVO zone -video.
18:18 "Patriotism, no matter who it is, is proved not by word, but by deed." (V. Belinsky) -video.
This is true! The Armed Forces of our country are actively proving this, not for a moment stopping their attempts to stop the enemy, who is eager to extinguish our love for the Motherland and faith in a better future!
17:47 The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not go according to plan -video.
17:45 Video- a naval infantry soldier of the Black Sea Fleet spoke about the liberation of the city of Mariupol from the nationalist formations
“The fortifications were at the Metro shopping center, snipers were working on us from above, mortars were on the edges, and a shooting battle was ensuing. From quarter to quarter. Every quarter they did this. We were prepared for this, we practiced, trained, and we had quite good commanders. They [nationalists] hid behind the people. All the people we evacuated unanimously said that they were not released, they were forced to sit in basements and apartments, ”recalls the serviceman.
17:32 A well-aimed hit by a sniper (an enemy soldier's helmet was torn off his head) in the offensive zone of the 2nd Army Corps in the Seversky direction -video.
17:30 Situation in Belogorovka LNR —video.
17:02 Footage of the work of the Grad MLRS crews in the zone of the special operation. Personnel of the Russian Ministry of Defense -video.
16:58 Scouts of the OBTF Cascade in Ugledar found an infantry fighting vehicle standing by a residential building according to the Ukrainian tradition, after which it quickly disappeared. A group of Vushniks approached the car, and they were sent after the box -video.
16:30 The work of the tank on the Ukrainian manpower in the Svatovsky direction -video.
15:53 It is reported that the footage shows the first use of UPAB-1500B by Russian aviation against buried bunkers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is stated that the blow was delivered to the positions of the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Avdeevsky coke plant -video.
15:51 Intercepted A/C copter with prohibited symbols near Avdievka.
15:35 Russian Aerospace Forces in the sky in the north of Ukraine calls for air defense forces to fight -video.
“These are the traces in the sky over the Chernihiv region that are left by enemy aircraft that are trying to detect Ukrainian air defense,” Kyiv resources write. Earlier, monitoring groups reported on the activity of Russian tactical aviation near the northern border of Ukraine.
15:14 Video 152mm MSTA-S destroys the elite of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kremennaya
In the flint forests, the enemy throws by no means the worst of his units. In one of our recent exclusives, you can clearly see that the paratroopers of the elite airmobile brigade are well trained, armed and equipped.
But you should always remember that the commander of an artillery battery does not care what special forces you are from. And the crews of self-propelled guns also do not like to take prisoners, not their profile.
15:00 Video Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation hits neo-Nazi oporniks over Kremennaya
14:30 Summary Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (03/13/2023)
- In the Kupyansky direction, active actions of units, artillery fire of the "Western" group of troops hit the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Masyutovka, Krakhmalnoe of the Kharkov region, Stelmahovka and Rozovka of the Luhansk People's Republic.
Destroyed over 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two cars.
- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, the artillery fire of the group of troops (forces) "Center" defeated the enemy's manpower and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Nevskoye, Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic, Terny and Grigorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
During the day, up to 110 Ukrainian servicemen, two pickup trucks, as well as a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed in this direction.
- In the Donetsk direction, as a result of the active actions of the units of the "Southern" group of forces, air strikes and artillery fire, up to 190 Ukrainian servicemen, three tanks, two armored combat vehicles, fourteen vehicles, as well as a 152mm Msta-B howitzer were destroyed per day.
- In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, operational-tactical aviation and artillery of the Vostok group of forces inflicted a complex defeat on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Vugledar of the Donetsk People's Republic, Poltavka, Gulyaipole and Shcherbaki of the Zaporozhye region.
During the day, up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two pickup trucks, as well as 152mm D-20 and 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed in these directions.
- In the Kherson direction, as a result of enemy fire, over 20 Ukrainian servicemen, five vehicles, two 152mm Akatsia self-propelled howitzers, and also a 152mm Msta-B howitzer were destroyed in a day.
- Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation defeated 76 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and equipment in 148 districts in a day.
In the area of the settlement of Pervomaiskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic, a Ukrainian OSA-AKM anti-aircraft missile system was hit. Air defense systems shot down 12 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and one HARM anti-radar missile during the day.
– In addition, 16 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Novovodyanoe, Svatovo, Novoaleksandrovka, Novokrasnyanka of the Lugansk People's Republic, Vladimirovka, Yegorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Vasilyevka of the Zaporozhye region, Novaya Zburyevka, as well as Konstantinovka of the Kherson region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 400 aircraft, 220 helicopters, 3,401 unmanned aerial vehicles, 412 anti-aircraft missile systems, 8,280 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,055 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,333 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 8,904 units of special military vehicles.
14:11 "Our Soviet Union will punish .." -video.
Another American 155mm M777 howitzer was captured. The car burned down, the howitzer was damaged.
14:10 Consequences of the artillery attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine using MLRS HIMARS Perevalsk, LPR —video.
As a result, three civilians were killed, including a 17-year-old teenager, and 15 people were injured, including four children.
14:08 Ramzan Kadyrov on supporting the NVO in Chechnya:
“We carry out all your orders and aim to act to the bitter end. The inhabitants of the region fully support the NWO and consider it necessary to achieve its goals and objectives.”
In response, Vladimir Putin thanked the head of the republic and its fighters for their courage:
"I see how your guys are fighting in the NWO zone, give them the best words, thank you very much."
13:30 Consequences of artillery attacks of a school in the Kievsky district of Donetsk by artillery of Ukrainian militants.
13:06 Bakhmut: Ukrainian militants showed a strange powerful "arrival" -video.
An explosion sounded like a shell hit near the house where the Armed Forces were sitting. It only raises doubts that the person filming almost did not twitch ... More like a controlled detonation.
12:34 Worsened setting for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of N. p. Kamenka on Avdeevsky direction.
11:51 Russian volunteers from Voronezh convey their fiery greetings to the Ukrainians -video.
11:50 Russian artillerymen destroy the bridge in the village. Daryevka, Kherson region, controlled by the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video.
11:48 Video- For courage shown in close combat with the nationalists, the Order of Courage was awarded to the chief of staff of the motorized rifle battalion, Captain Sergei Zubkov. The unit under his command during one of the battles entrenched itself in important positions and repulsed the counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ensuring the successful advance of the Russian troops. How it was, Sergey tells himself.
11:46 Russian tankers provide fire support to motorized riflemen, ensuring the offensive of troops in the zone of the special operation -video.
11:13 Bakhmut, atomosphere: gloomy Armed Forces soldiers fire from apartments and hide NATO equipment with Wehrmacht crosses near residential buildings.
10:32 Accurate hit on the enemy from different angles. Correction and artillery worked perfectly -video.
10:04 Artillerymen of the “O” group worked on the accumulation of forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the 152mm “Hyacinth-S” gun, the direction is unknown -video.
09:44 All targets destroyed: naval infantry of the Black Sea Fleet smash the enemy in the zone of the special operation -video
In the course of combat work, naval infantry of the Black Sea Fleet in one of the areas of a special military operation repelled an attack by a sabotage and reconnaissance group of Ukrainian militants.
According to intelligence, the location of the enemy was determined and fire from an anti-tank missile system, artillery and T-90M "Proryv" tanks, the attack of Ukrainian nationalists was thwarted in a matter of minutes.
Adjustment of the fire was carried out by calculations of unmanned aerial vehicles. All targets were destroyed during the battle
09:36 Over the past dayUkronazison the civil infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region 94 rounds from cannon artillery, incl. during the day - 47.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlements of Novaya Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Tavriysk, Cairo and Rybachye, firing a total of 47 rounds from cannon artillery.
09:33 Representation of the DPR in the JCCC informs about 15 facts of firing by the VFU per day
The enemy fired from the Himars MLRS and 300mm BM-30 Smerch, AGM-88 HARM, 155mm and 152mm artillery, firing 64 units of various ammunition across the territory of the DPR.
Under the fire of the VFU were: Yasinovataya, Donetsk, Makeevka.
08:39 Chronicle of blows and mutual shelling in the NWO zone for the night from 12 to 13 March 2023
Air defense systems intercepted four missiles over Belgorod and the Belgorod region: residential buildings were damaged by debris, one woman was injured.
Russian troops hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Volfino, Sumy region, as well as Strelechya, Malyye Prokhody and Krasnoye, Kharkov region.
In the Starobelsky direction, the RF Armed Forces worked on concentrations of personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Dvurechnaya, Nevsky and Kupyansk.
In the Bakhmut (Artyomovsky) direction, Russian missile troops and artillery hit the places of concentration of Ukrainian units in Bakhmut, Orekhovo-Vasilevka and Bogdanovka.
In the Donetsk direction, the RF Armed Forces attacked enemy positions in Avdeevka, Tonenkoe and Nevelskoe.
In turn, Ukrainian formations from cannon artillery fired at residential buildings and civilian facilities in Donetsk.
In the Yuzhnodonets direction, Russian troops worked on targets in Ugledar, Vremyevka and Neskuchny.
In the Zaporozhye region, the RF Armed Forces attacked enemy positions in Malinovka, Gulyaipole and Novoandreevka.
On the southern sector of the front, Russian troops hit the concentrations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kherson, Berislav and Dneprovsky.
08:25 A sniper of the “Brave” special forces destroys the enemy near Kremennaya —video
Spetsnaz members constantly leave for multi-day combat exits, where they are engaged in reconnaissance, the destruction of saboteurs and columns of armored vehicles.
Over the past month alone, the fighters of this group of Special Forces burned two tanks, four armored personnel carriers and 6 enemy pickups
08:23 Summary March 13th.
In Artemovsk (Bakhmut), Wagner PMC entered the underground utilities of the AZOM plant. Operations continue to encircle the city. Heavy fighting continues in the direction, the enemy is preparing reserves for a counteroffensive.
Information is being received from the Avdeevsky direction about the capture of enemy positions by the Russian Armed Forces in the east of Krasnogorovka, located on the northern ledge of the front. In the south-west, there are also battles in the area of the settlement. North.
At the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the industrial zone of the Avdievka Coke and Chemical Plant, as well as two buried bunkers, the aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces began to use heavy gliding bombs UPAB-1500B and Grom-2.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired four missiles at Belgorod and the Belgorod region, which were shot down by air defense systems. One victim is known.
In the DPR, the enemy fired 64 rounds of ammunition, and the areas of Yasinovataya and Donetsk were under fire. Wounded woman.
According to n.p. Perevalsk in the LPR, the enemy fired an M30A1 GMLRS missile from the HIMARS MLRS. Three civilians were killed, 7 people were injured.
08:16 Frontline summary on the morning of 03/13/2023
In the Zaporozhye direction, Russian artillery became more active, which hit almost along the entire line of contact. Plavni, Kamenskoye, Stepnoye, Malyye Shcherbaki, Novoandreevka, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Belogorye, Charovnoye, Gulyaipole, Krasnoye, Malinovka and Olgovskoye were under shelling.
On the Donetsk front, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued assault operations in the city of Maryinka. They also carried out a ground attack on the fortified area of ??the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Krasnogorovka and Nevelskoye. With the support of artillery, Russian units attacked Pervomaiskoye.
To the south-west of Avdievka, they attacked near Severny, and from the south, with artillery support, they tried to advance towards the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city itself.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued the assault on Kamenka in order to reach the section of the road on the H-20 highway. A little to the north, they broke through the defenses of the Ukrainian army and entered the village of Krasnogorovka.
Thus, the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdievka gradually falls into a semicircle. Russian artillery hit Novomikhailovka, Pobeda, Georgievka, Thin, Orlovka, Berdychi, Lastochkin, Alexandropol and New York. Ukrainian troops shelled Vodiane and Donetsk.
PMC "Wagner", with the support of artillery, managed to advance on the southern outskirts of Bakhmut from the side of Experienced. From the north, Wagner operators conduct assault operations from Yagodnoye. Also, with fire support, they are pushing through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Khromovoe, Bogdanovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka and Zheleznyansky. Russian artillery hits Ivanovsky, Grigorovka, Minkovka, Vasyukovka and Disputed.
In the Luhansk direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are conducting offensive operations on Terny, Nevskoye and Makeevka. The Ukrainian army counterattacks near Karmazinovka.
Commentary by Russian blogger Donetsk:
[DonRF] They have been talking about the counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Chasov Yar for many days. And the figure is called - 10 brigades. Primitivizing everything to the point of impossibility. Because there are no 10 brigades in Clock Yar. There is nowhere to stick 35,000 people and hundreds of AFVs.
But in Chasov Yar, Konstantinovka, Druzhkovka and Kramatorsk - there is. And even a little more. And a wide arc strike is possible. On the flanks that are held not by Wagner operators, but by the army. In the end, both their and our generals studied from the same textbooks and in the same schools. And at the heart of these textbooks were the operations of the Great Patriotic War.
And among them are the Stalingrad defensive and offensive operations. In short, the Red Army, using far from the best units, exhausted the Wehrmacht strike force in heavy urban battles, and then struck at the flanks, which were held not by the German elite, but by the poorly trained allies of Germany, and created a cauldron for the best German army - the Sixth. Everyone knows what happens next. Threatened by the encirclement of the entire southern flank, the Germans retreated to a great distance, and by the summer the Battle of Kursk began.
It is tempting for Kyiv to repeat such a move. The prize, if successful, will be huge, and it is difficult to overestimate the moral value. Yes, and such a move suggests itself, taking into account the disagreements between Wagner operators and the Moscow Region.
Another question is that if we are ready, then all this will turn into a huge mousetrap for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in which the reserves prepared during the winter will burn out, which will cast doubt on the summer offensive. Because 1000 AFVs, 300 tanks, up to 50 aircraft from the enemy is good, but not as much as needed. Plus Artemovsk is never Stalingrad. This is not a steppe, there is a dense builtup area. And their generals are never the Vasilevskys, nor the Zhukovs, nor the Antonovs.
And if there is such a blow - and this is more than likely - then there is not a single reasonable reason why the Russian Defense Ministry, while holding the flanks, cannot repel it. Moreover, starting the main battle of spring in a completely destroyed region instead of the untouched South is FAVORABLE for us. For many reasons. Including economic.
There should be enough troops there, resources too, but for Kyiv, even advancing 10-20 km, it will be difficult to explain why the flow of coffins intensified even more sharply, although it seemed - where would it be? But all this provided that the public is higher than the departmental, and both parts of the Russian power are ready and able to cooperate effectively.
Well, provided that these constant injections are not a distraction from the South in order to tear apart our reserves before hitting the Crimea. Actually, it’s also a completely working option - to collect old equipment, freshly caught meat, deliver a local strike according to the principle - if only louder, and after waiting for an emergency transfer of reserves, strike already in the South with fresh units.
In principle, the enemy has enough strength for local offensives not only in the Artyomovsk region, but also in two more directions - Donetsk, where our troops are trying to bypass Avdievka, once again, and Vuhledar, where everything is complicated and not easy, including supply.
The next week or two, of course, will show what the enemy has chosen, and how ready we are. It won't really change anything. All bets are made, the figures (both on Olympus and on the front) are placed, it remains to pass the exam. Or don't give up. The enemy will take it. Fire and steel. And everything will depend on the soldiers and officers, on the quality of supplies and the number of guns, on the morale and ability of the elites to work together, and not just fight for influence. The next time will show. Spring is already... The winter campaign is over. Follow the enemy.
Commentary by uUssian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Across Artemovsk, mid-afternoon, March 13
Over the past day, our assault groups have made some progress in the industrial sector and in the area of the AZOM plant. The enemy confirms the gradual advance of our assault groups in the city blocks, despite attempts to organize a tough defense and stop the advance of the Wagner.
Fierce fighting continues in the Krasnoye area. The enemy confidently controls the settlement and tries to push the Wagner off the Chasov-Yar-Krasnoye-Artemovsk road by means of counterattacks in order to use it in the future if the situation with Khromovo worsens.
Khromovo is also under the enemy - the battles are going to the north. Since the loss of Khromovo means the automatic formation of a cauldron, they will hold on to it to the last.
Bogdanovka is also under the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There are battles at Orekhovo-Vasilyevka and at Zaliznyansky.
Meanwhile, due to the shelling of roads from Artemovsk, on the roads and fields to the west of the city, the number of destroyed wheeled and tracked vehicles continues to increase. This is a good process.
The enemy is concentrating additional forces in Chasov Yar (as well as in the Rai-Aleksandrovka area) and is expected to try this week to push the Wagner back at least in one of the directions from Artemovsk. There is a transfer of reserves taken from the border with Belarus and from the Chernihiv region.
The strikes of the RF Armed Forces in the area of Chasov Yar and Konstantinovka are primarily aimed at the enemy's redeployed reserves, which are deployed in industrial zones and the private sector. In general, the battle for Artyomovsk continues to put serious pressure on the operational plans of the Ukrainian command, which affects the situation in other areas as well.
[Newsweek] Russia's arms export industry—historically the second most lucrative in the world after the United States—appears to be collapsing under the weight of technological shifts, international political isolation, and its disastrous war in Ukraine, according to new figures released by the world's leading weapons industry watchdog.
Data published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on Monday show that Russia's military exports fell by 31 percent over the past five years when compared with the five years previous, threatening Moscow's position as the world's second most influential weapons dealer.
Russia's share of global arms exports fell from 22 to 16 percent between 2013-2017 and 2018-2022, leaving it far behind the U.S. which accounts for 40 percent of military exports, and only slightly ahead of France, which was the source of 11 percent of arms exports over the past five years.
SIPRI's latest data confirms Newsweek reporting from last year indicating a bleak trajectory bleak for Russian military exporters. "It's really substantial, but it's not really surprising," Siemon Wezeman, a senior SIPRI researcher, told Newsweek. "And it's not just because of what's happening in Ukraine in 2022; it's something that you could see coming."
The West has been working to isolate Russia since its invasion and annexation of Crimea—and its fomentation of unrest in Ukraine's Donbas region—since 2014. The effort has been supercharged since Russian troops again rolled into Ukrainian territory in February 2022. Led by Washington, D.C., Moscow's adversaries are chipping away at the Kremlin's customer base.
Meanwhile, the staggeringly high rates of Russian casualties and equipment losses in Ukraine are putting defense producers under pressure, as are the less-than-stellar performances of key Russian weapons platforms that appear unable to counter the most advanced NATO arms used by Ukrainian troops.
Denis Manturov, Russia's deputy prime minister of industry and trade, told Interfax last month that a "significant" portion of weapons being produced in the country are being directed to Ukrainian battlefields. "Their provision is our absolute priority, but even in these conditions we continue to work with our partners from friendly countries and fulfill our obligations," he said.
"There are different issues that Russia has to struggle with," Wezeman said. "One, of course, is the pressure from the U.S. and others—already ongoing since 2014—on potential customers and existing customers of Russia, to stop and not to buy Russian, and at the same time offering them alternative technology and alternative weapons.
"They did it very strongly with India, but they also do it with others. They've done it with Indonesia, and that led Indonesia to cancel an order of Russian combat aircraft. They've done it with Egypt, where it's not said so loud, but Egypt had an order for combat aircraft from Russia and that has gone. It's pretty obvious, I would say, that the U.S. pressured them."
The problem pre-dated the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, though has been exacerbated by President Vladimir Putin's revanchist gambit.
"They would still have those issues," Wezeman said. "The invasion, of course, adds to that because it's even more pressure from the U.S. and other states: 'Don't buy from Russia. You're either with us or you're against us. If you buy from Russia, you look like you're against us. And if you're with us, maybe we are willing to supply all kinds of wonderful technology.'"
"Maybe two years ago that would have been a bit iffy, but nowadays they are willing to do it," he added.
[Barents Observer, Norway] Moscow's oil and gas revenues plummeted 46% in January-February.
According to the Russian Ministry of Finance, federal budget revenues in the first two months of 2023 were down 25 percent compared with the same period in 2022. A total of 1,263 trillion rubles entered the state treasury in the period.
Parallel to the shrinking revenues comes a significant increase in state spending. Budget expenditure in January-February amounted to 5,744 trillion rubles, up 52 percent year-on-year.
The figures show that a major budget deficit of 2,581 trillion rubles, or about 45 percent, has built up over only two months.
The lower revenues are related with Russia’s increasingly troublesome sales of oil and gas. According to the Finance Ministry, revenues from the petroleum industry amounted to 947 billion rubles, a decrease of 46 percent compared with the same period in 2022. The drop follows the price cap on Russian introduced by western countries on 5th of February, as well as the halt in natural gas sales by pipeline to the EU. The EU refined oil products ban will be in full effect by April. Unsold inventory has been filling up tankers in port.
Traditionally, revenues from sales of crude oil, petroleum products, and natural gas have accounted for about a half of Russia’s federal budget.
But also other sectors bring less money to the Russian treasury. The so-called none-petroluem revenues shrunk by nine percent year-on-year, much of it reportedly caused by a drop in collected income taxes.
[NPASyria] Russia and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) have reached a deal on Sunday to repatriate another 200 Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS)-linked minors being held in the Roj and Hawl camps in northeast Syria, said Maria Lvova-Belova, the children’s rights ombudswoman for Russia.
"An agreement has been reached with the authorities of the Kurdish side to take another 200 Russian children home from Syria soon," Lvova-Belova told news hounds.
Russia repatriated 49 children on Saturday, bringing the country’s total number of returned citizens to 399 since 2018. An overwhelming number of them have been children. Russia is among the top repatriating countries in the world.
Around 4.500 Russian citizens joined the ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Most survivors are now being in the Roj and Hawl camps that are run by the AANES and its security forces (the Asayish), or in one of several prisons in northeast Syria under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The deal reached will repatriate a further 200 Russian children in the near future, Tass reported.
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